Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Gastrointestinal (GI) Services Division
Posted 5 hours 2 minutes ago by NHS
£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Healthcare & Medical Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Gastrointestinal (GI) Services Division The closing date is 16 February 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, proactive and dynamic pharmacist to lead our clinical pharmacy service to the Gastrointestinal (GI) Services Division during a period of maternity leave for our current Lead Clinical Pharmacist. GI Services incorporates our Intestinal Failure, Obesity Services, Colorectal Surgery, Colorectal Medicine, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Upper GI Surgery, Upper GI Medicine, Vascular services, and Hepatology services.
You will lead a team of pharmacists and a Medicines Management Technician to provide a full clinical service to our medical gastroenterology, surgical gastrointestinal and intestinal failure wards based in University College Hospital Tower, along with the outpatient Inflammatory Bowel Disease service, and the Endoscopy Unit and Infusion Clinic.
Your extensive experience of working with complex parenteral nutrition patients will be of value in leading on the provision of clinical pharmacy services to the Intestinal Failure (IF) Service and UCLH Nutrition Team, where the team participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds, team meetings and clinics. The IF Service currently includes management of PN for around 130 outpatients.
Main duties of the job You will act as an expert resource on the safe & effective use of medicines for the GI Services Division and will lead on medicines-related clinical governance issues, including responsibility for incident, complaint & claim handling; development of guidelines, policies & procedures; monitoring and evaluation of services.
You will identify and lead on quality improvement projects to enhance the safety, efficacy and/or efficiency of services, and provide relevant evaluated financial data for medicines expenditure, income, and cost saving or avoidance initiatives, such as the adoption of best values medicines and biosimilars.
In conjunction with our Pharmacy Homecare Team, you will support homecare schemes including PN for IF patients, and a range of biologics for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The UCLH Pharmacy team is well integrated into clinical practice and works closely with all professions and staff groups in order to provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy support for inpatient, day case, and outpatient gastroenterology and nutrition patients.
As part of our broader clinical pharmacy team, you will contribute to the implementation & analysis of local and national initiatives to further develop our services. You will also contribute to the delivery of educational & developmental programmes, including UCL School of Pharmacy undergraduate clinical placements, the JPB Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.
About us University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job responsibilities For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff
UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey, UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff. To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person Specification Qualifications, knowledge & competence
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, proactive and dynamic pharmacist to lead our clinical pharmacy service to the Gastrointestinal (GI) Services Division during a period of maternity leave for our current Lead Clinical Pharmacist. GI Services incorporates our Intestinal Failure, Obesity Services, Colorectal Surgery, Colorectal Medicine, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Upper GI Surgery, Upper GI Medicine, Vascular services, and Hepatology services.
You will lead a team of pharmacists and a Medicines Management Technician to provide a full clinical service to our medical gastroenterology, surgical gastrointestinal and intestinal failure wards based in University College Hospital Tower, along with the outpatient Inflammatory Bowel Disease service, and the Endoscopy Unit and Infusion Clinic.
Your extensive experience of working with complex parenteral nutrition patients will be of value in leading on the provision of clinical pharmacy services to the Intestinal Failure (IF) Service and UCLH Nutrition Team, where the team participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds, team meetings and clinics. The IF Service currently includes management of PN for around 130 outpatients.
Main duties of the job You will act as an expert resource on the safe & effective use of medicines for the GI Services Division and will lead on medicines-related clinical governance issues, including responsibility for incident, complaint & claim handling; development of guidelines, policies & procedures; monitoring and evaluation of services.
You will identify and lead on quality improvement projects to enhance the safety, efficacy and/or efficiency of services, and provide relevant evaluated financial data for medicines expenditure, income, and cost saving or avoidance initiatives, such as the adoption of best values medicines and biosimilars.
In conjunction with our Pharmacy Homecare Team, you will support homecare schemes including PN for IF patients, and a range of biologics for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The UCLH Pharmacy team is well integrated into clinical practice and works closely with all professions and staff groups in order to provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy support for inpatient, day case, and outpatient gastroenterology and nutrition patients.
As part of our broader clinical pharmacy team, you will contribute to the implementation & analysis of local and national initiatives to further develop our services. You will also contribute to the delivery of educational & developmental programmes, including UCL School of Pharmacy undergraduate clinical placements, the JPB Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.
About us University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job responsibilities For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff
UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey, UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff. To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person Specification Qualifications, knowledge & competence
- Minimum of four years experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner Six years post registration
- Broad clinical experience within general surgery and general medicine
- Specialist clinical experience of gastroenterology, including enteral and parenteral nutritional needs, and related aseptic production issues
- Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or General Pharmacy Practice
- Identifies areas where non-doctor prescribing may be applicable to specialist practice
- Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others
- Maintains an awareness of broader pharmacy practice
- Ten years post-registration
- Clinical experience of level 2 and/or 3 critically ill patients and hepatology
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Identifies and implements best practice
- Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in management of others
- Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software packages in order to enhance work efficiency and to generate solutions to complex problems
- Evaluates service provision
- Ability to evaluate quality of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrates innovation
- Delegates authority appropriately
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures
- Ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities
- Identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services to the surgery
- Ability to utilise database and other software packages in order to enhance work efficiency and to generate solutions to complex problems
- Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided
- Identifies staff development needs to enhance the clinical pharmacy service
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures at a directorate level
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in surgery patients
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations based on deep tacit understanding
- Ability to formulate suitable solutions in areas of uncertainty
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of diverse unavoidable pressures
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within surgery, and respects confidentiality
- Recognised as a national and/or international expert amongst clinical pharmacists within surgery
- Ability to prioritise future developments to meet service needs
- Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous problems where little information is available
- Ability to influence practice at a directorate level
- Demonstrates ability to co-ordinate services to achieve desired outcomes in the face of diverse unavoidable pressures
- Demonstrates a whole -system patient -focussed approach
- Previous experience in delivering education and training at a post graduate level
- Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
- Previous experience in co-ordinating and delivering education and training at a post graduate level
- Actively seeks novel opportunities to meet training needs, and evaluates the training provided
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Integrates research evidence into practice
- Maintains a portfolio of practice
- Planning and co-ordination of multi-disciplinary health care research
- Undertakes own research . click apply for full job details